[Dawn] Gunmen on Monday desecrated graves of Ahmadis in Lahore, members of the minority community said, in the latest act of intimidation and religious hatred against the beleaguered group.

More than a dozen masked men broke into an Ahmadi graveyard in the Model Town area of Lahore before dawn and after tying up the security guard and caretaker vandalised graves, community front man Salimud Din said.

The attackers shattered the tomb stones of about 120 graves and left, he said.

Din said police took no action after similar incidents a few months ago in the eastern city of Faisalabad...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... and the central town of Lodhran.

The government has failed to protect our human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... and Ahmadis life and property is not safe in Pakistain, Din said.

Shahid Ataullah, a local Ahmadi elder, said the attackers came around 2:00am (2100 GMT) and threatened the guard and caretaker with dire consequences and said that they were annoyed because Islamic verses were engraved on the tombstones.

Ataullah told AFP that the attackers told the guards they were from cut-thoat groups Lashkar-e-Taiba...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and the Taliban, though there was no claim of responsibility.

Members of the community were discussing whether or not to lodge a formal complaint with police, he said.

We are under lots of pressure and the objective seems to be to harass us,Ataullah said.

Police said that they were not aware of the incident.

There is no such thing in our knowledge. We will take action when someone files a report about the incident, local cop shoppe chief Idrees Qureshi told AFP.

In May 2010, nearly 100 people were killed in Lahore after Death Eaters stormed two Ahmadi places of worship launching gun and grenade attacks.

Gunmen later raided the hospital where victims were being treated, killing four people in a shoot out.